Malyore wrote: »

I'm still uncertain what exactly she is the Prince of. "Roads not traveled" doesn't make sense to me yet.

Think ‘multiverse.’

Ithelia is Auriel.

Nah, jokes aside, my guess is that the entire reason she got locked away and forgotten was because she is sort of an anti-Akatosh in a way. Where his sphere of influence is regarding time (fate already written before it comes to pass), Ithelia being the Prince of Fate means she has power over the possibilities that can happen. This makes her intrinsically connected with Akatosh but she's probably more powerful: not just because she's a Daedra (meaning she didn't sacrifice her essence to create Mundus), but because her sphere of influence allows her to influence events before they happen and she probably has at least some capacity to determine which potential events occur and when they come to pass.

All just my speculation, however.

What isn't my speculation is the in-game book, The Nine Coruscations. It's a bit of a cryptic read but I definitely recommend running through it a few times as it's setting up some absolutely monumental new lore.

There’s specific dialogue where she says she can’t change Fate, just walk the Paths. She seems to be able to rewrite things but it’s probably just by connecting/disconnecting Paths together instead of making new ones. I don’t know, it seems like a contradiction.

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